🎯 Mind Over Match: Beating Tilt and Building Tournament-Ready Focus

Big tournaments can test more than just your gameplay—they test your mindset, endurance, and ability to recover when things go wrong. Whether it’s a bad draw, a tough matchup, or an early loss, tilt can creep in fast and derail your entire run. In this episode, we’re breaking down how to mentally and physically prepare for big events—from managing nerves and staying sharp between rounds to recognizing the early signs of tilt and resetting before your next game. If you want to walk into your next Vault Tour or major event ready to compete at your peak, this is the episode for you.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Like a strange like a creature talk.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
You keep talking with.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
You because I create the event and type in the title, and.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I know I know a lot of act of the brain.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Man, what a stupid song?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
If you're not in the yoga extra?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Do you know what that song is about?

Speaker 5 (00:40):
I heard it before.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
I don't like me You Love at Midnight?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I figure it was an adult song that sounds like
an adult song. Uh it is. I can tell about a.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Guy who is putting an ad out uh to cheat
on his wife, and then the the person that he
meets to cheat on his wife with is his wife
who was also looking to cheat on him.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, okay, yeah, that's about Yeah, it's definitely an his
old song.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I believe they call that karma. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
You think of the dirtiest song that ain't? Have you
guys heard of that one before?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Is a song that ain't. It's about to be exactly.
It's about the song. It's about this weak song.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Trust me, it's gonna be. It's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I the song is. I let my daughter almost pick
a song one week and Emo Boy and I listened
to it and I was like, I can't, I can't
subject other.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Fact that particular song, the dirtiest song that ain't your
daughter can listen to it because they won't get it.
All the stuff is censored, like your mind fills it in.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
The dirtiest song that ain't well.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah from Voltaire. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
I keep looking at your picture and I can't lose
your voice comes out of that body.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean, you have the picture of me in the
altered corner.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Thing, I know, and that's where I'd stemmed from, And
I was like, that's his voice. I was like, it's
got to be a microphone thing like it's it's got
to be shaped up somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
It could be. This is not a good microphone.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
What's funny? I was digging through my ship and I
found I found a microphone, which story? Why did it
crop like that? Oh my god, I'm gonna lose my shit.
Fucking YouTube? Why do you suck so bad that I

(03:13):
don't know? I kind of corner dot com?

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Did YouTube fail?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Again? Like? No?

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Sometimes it fucking crops shit weird, and it's just like,
why do you know? But then it looks like I
go and I look at it on the page and
it looks just fine, And I don't understand, nor do
I care, but what's going on? Everybody? I am the one,
the only w o okay, I e I joined here
by my normal cast of misfits. We have the guy

(03:44):
who knows more than you, mister Cole Robbie, Hello, hello.
We have the proverbial dexter or I'm sorry, he's the
proverbial red shirt dexter.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
Hello everyone.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
And then we got the guy whose voice doesn't match
his body Felix.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's cool, nice, It definitely doesn't fit.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
It doesn't It's like sssame street. One of these things
is not like the other. One of these things just
doesn't belong, and it's like the hell these don't match. Also,
Felix should be on a cover of some sort of magazine.
I haven't decided what one, but he's definitely probably the

(04:31):
prettiest member of Arcan's Corner.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Also the prettiest member of Altered Corner too.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yep, that's the one that's the show we're on right now,
Altered Corner. Both ironically, I always with our powers combined. Somehow,
Felix is still the prettiest member out of all of them.
I don't know. Drascore is not bad. He's like six
to two, so he's got that going for him.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, I always thought I looked hidious.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
From who Who's told you this?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's just me?

Speaker 4 (05:07):
You took that picture and I'm like, it's just a
glamor shot or what the fuck is this? This is bullshit.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I was thearing a demo a US and somebody took
a picture that was demo ing.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
I'm not my own goddamn podcast. Is that table flip?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
If you want to see the picture that we are
talking about, you can just go to Altered Corner dot
com now and see Felix's pretty face on the front page.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
But that's not what we're here to talk about today. No, Well,
we're really here to talk about is something way more,
well kind of important. I've been notified that by the
time that most of you are listening to this, stuff
and things will have already transpired. And by stuff and things,

(05:53):
I mean worlds. Worlds will be happening next week Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, the else the Q starting on the seventeenth,
as we move into the normal matchup rounds. Are you excited? Cole?
When do you fly out?

Speaker 1 (06:13):
You fly out on Wednesday the fifteenth, at like five
pm or something like.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
That cool, So we'll see if there's an altered corner
next week. We don't really know. We don't know what
to do in Cole's not here. We're not really supposed
to wake.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I'll talk about later about something maybe.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Actually we're also not supposed to be left unsupervised. I
don't know. It's a rule somebody put in here. I
didn't make the rules. They just they appear and we
follow them sometimes.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm actually gonna be absent next week too.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Ironically, sounds like a good time to take a break,
and you guys don't have to come around here and
you can just go to all Right, now that we're
in this topic, Cole, where can I find a stream
of worlds.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
LL?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
I guess this will be uh the first time I'm
saying it explicitly out loud, but the English broadcast will
be on the A wall YouTube, which if you've watched
basically any major altered content in English, you already know

(07:31):
where it is. But if you just type in AWOL
altered TCG, I'm sure you'll find it. It stands for
Altered Weekly Online League and Blue and I will be
running the stream and we'll have some of the.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Some damn pants?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
You want blue to wear pants?

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yes, it bothers me for grown ass men who wear
suit coats with shorts.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's just the es.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's the style.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Though, fucking grow up. He wouldn't be blue otherwise it
just so fucking grow up put on some pants. Ah,
but those are those are my crazy stupid uh pet peeves?
I guess is that is that the But it's time

(08:28):
for the altered corner unnecessary question of the week? Boys,
who of all the fast foods has the best French fries?

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
And you're asking a fry expert this question?

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh feelix you're a fry expert because I know I
got two people here that don't even eat fast They're like,
what's fast food?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I am me, I am the french fries.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
You're the french fry expert. Okay, but you don't.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
I I don't eat McDonald's. That doesn't mean I don't
eat fast food.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Okay, that's that's the same here. That's legit. Okay, So
who's got the best French fries around?

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay? And you said fast food, it's.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Got to be fast food. It's got to be. You
can't be like there's a small diner next to this
hole in the wall place that I've gone to that
I go to every week, and it's owned by this
little old lady and she's got the that that don't
count because the average listener can't go to that place, right, Well,
I guess they could, but they would be highly exclusive.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, you didn't say the best chain restaurant the best restaurant,
because that's difficult, all right, Well if you so, pries
have tears, right, So I there's what I lump all
fast food in and the winner of fast food is

(09:56):
most likely Wendy's. Yes, when they're good, exactly, I will
say for most consistent, like almost never are bad. Jack
in the.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Box, which is really just Arby's.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Right, Uh, No, Arby's is actually not very good.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Really makes some bomb ass curly fries. Maybe that's just
my Arby's, right, I've never had a bad fry from
the Arby's by my house, never, not what the curly
they're always crispy. Oh they're fantastic, They're just I could

(10:41):
go back.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
In the Box has more than just curly fries, though.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
I know they go well, so does Arby's. Arby's has
regular fries too, I don't know I've ever eaten a
regular sometime. Now. No, that's a lie. Twenty years you
could get you always could get regular fries at Arby's.
Just nobody does.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
You're lying.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
I don't think Soole's google this. How long has there
had two types of fries?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's not even real.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Oh no, they didn't have crinkle cup before. They just
had like regular ass fries.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, crinkle cut is what do you mean?

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Crinkle cut fries aren't real.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
They're right there, They're not real fries.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
They're fine.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Anyways, above fast food, above fast food are places like
mu Yah or Twisted Real or five guys, those kind
of places.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Five guys fast food.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Five guys fries are always so damn bland.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
You gotta get the Cajun fries.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah, yeah, five guys. Cajun fries are good.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm not a spy. Their regular price should be salted.
So maybe you're five guys.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Just yeah, because I don't know, I'm not a huge
five guys expert. I don't go there a ton.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
I'm now realizing how little I go to fast food
places because I haven't been to like any of these places.
The Windy's are a jack in the box or any
of these in probably like years.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
I went like the only in the box once and
that was when I was at gen Con last year.
Last year. I was so hungry I was. I was.
I was like, I'll fucking I will eat anything like it,
because I had place tie in Alliance and they had

(12:49):
all eaten without me because I placed tie an Alliance,
and I was like, I will literally eat anything right
now like it. It doesn't even matter as long as
it's like somewhat okay. And little did we know from
where we were staying there was literally a five guy
our five guys. There was literally a jacket a box
three and a half minutes from where we were staying.

(13:11):
Just instead of turning right to go to the Indianapolis
Convention Center, you turned left and it was right there
the whole time. And I don't even know what I ate,
but I was so hungry. I ate it. I had
a burger and surprise and it was really good. But
also I was really hungry because I had not eaten

(13:33):
at like all.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
So yep, because being hungry does taste.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Better, tastes way better. Yeah, that's true. Because I was
going to say, because like old school burger King fries
used to be the best. I don't know what they changed.
Like peak burger King fries is like two thousand and five.
I remember because I used to get a lot of
Burger King because it was right now.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I always got the tater thought a Burger King.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
They didn't, they didn't always have tater tots. Now you
can get half in half. I didn't know that half
half and half. I found that out the other day
when I was going to Burger King. There's a burger
King by my work that I refused to go to
because they that place could screw up water. But I
had to because that was all that was available and
I had gotten I'd gotten half in half. It was good. Felix,

(14:27):
what what are you saying? What's the top? What's the
top French fries?

Speaker 2 (14:30):
I was actually gonna say Wendy's as well. So yeah,
they feel they're they're thicker, they have stilled the skin
on them, so it's yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
When they're good, when they're bad, they are badly. Well
that's going to do it. Tell us what your favorite
French fry is in the comments section down below. Glad
to always hear from you, but the main topic today
that we are going into I like how, I like

(15:03):
how you put this in here. I said tilt, And
the first question I got is what is tilt? Do
I need to give the technical response that I gave Cole?

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Is that what I give us an intro of what
tilt is?

Speaker 4 (15:19):
So how how tilt is defined? Right is a state
of mental or emotional confusion or frustration in which a
player adopts a suboptimal strategy, usually resulting in a player
becoming overly aggressive. Now, I don't know about you. I've

(15:40):
been there, right, played a lot of card tournaments. I've
I've been in tilt before anybody else.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yeah, times, quite a few times, I would say, without
the aggressiveness tilt For me, I normally don't get aggressive,
but yeah, I spiral and then I make a whole
bunch of other mistakes and then get super stressed out
and annoyed it myself and then don't have a.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
Great time at the event.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's a big one.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Spiral is a good way to put it. Like a
curly fry.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Just like, just like curly fries. See how this all
gets together? God, we're good. Oh man, we should get
a better sponsor. This whole thing, totally plan this whole thing,
so biggest thing. And I've i have experienced tilt. And
I've also experienced people who are tilted and not knowing

(16:34):
they're tilted. Maybe they do know it, but they have
a trouble. I guess getting out of it is the
best way I can put it, because it is a struggle, right, Like,
once you're tilted and you know you're tilted, there's usually
what is it the seven stages of coping or whatever

(16:55):
it is, what are the stages of coping? You get
that anger, grief, whatever, denial, denial, because usually it's like,
I'm not tilted, I'm not tilted, I'm not tilted. If
you are telling everyone you're not tilted, you're probably tilted. Okay,
I'm glad we all agree. Speak, feel free to speak

(17:17):
at any time. Guys, got it, and.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
You guys are the experts. I'm I'm taking it.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
In all your you're taking well, you're judging. I don't
even know. Can you get tilted as a judge.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I am, I'm not judging.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
You can now you're you're just streaming.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Yeah no, yeah, he's streaming.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
Okay, Yeah, I prefer casting.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
I'll be judging at Packs unplugged.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Though, nice, I will not be up packs it.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
What are you gonna judge not altered Marvel Champions.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
It has a that has a it has a o
P system.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, I will be honest and say I have no
idea how you be a floor judge for Marvel Champions.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
But the Marvel Champions a co op game.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, it's a it's a living card game. So I
think it's mainly just being there for like hard interaction
answers and stuff. But the game is yeah, the game
is very like TCG centric, like there's.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Totally yeah, I thought this was a miniature game.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
No, that's oh what is what what is that one
called Crisis?

Speaker 4 (18:41):
I mean the Crisis Protocol? Yeah, it was all right,
So what are some of the signs? You're tilted? Feelix?
What do you what do you got? What do you think?
What are some of the science you're tilted?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
So the ones that comes to mind a lot is
I did I played a lot of Final Fantasy for
a little while, and I remember forgetting triggers. I remember
forgetting to play a certain card, playing things in the
wrong order, and you start getting depressed. It's like, what
did I do? Or can I go back? But then

(19:17):
at the same time you started thinking to yourself, I
can't ask my opponent to go back. This is a
competitive game that's for championship points on the line. So
depression and desperation is a big one, because now you're
trying to fix the problem that you started, and you
don't want to look weak in front of an opponent

(19:37):
pretty much, but sometimes it still gets to you. You
get educated.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yes, it's a it's an irritability or anger, right. Usually
when a revenge mindset, you're playing to h like, yeah,
to get that mistake back or to prove you know,
you're trying to for something. Yeah, oh I made this mistake.
Now I'm tilted, and now I'm trying to I'm trying

(20:07):
to overcompensate.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, So there's two, and there's two levels of it.
The one that I've suffered the most is more internal depression,
just being angry with myself and getting to a point
that the game starts being fun and I just want
to quit and just pretty much just just walk away.
So that's the one that happens to me, but it

(20:30):
doesn't as well to me. It happens as well that
and I've seen it where players get frustrated and like
you said, revenge do you want to make it very
very difficult for your opponent, even if you're not going
to win, you want to make them angry. And I've
seen that happen before as well.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yep, being on tilt can definitely make you become a
rage baiter and try your hardest to make your opponent.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Matt, Yes, but you start getting me, you start making
more more shark calls for judges. He started, they started
making They start playing slower in a way to overcompensate
for that anger that they.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Have, or faster. Yeah, sometimes you're you're playing just speed
because you're like, well it's over and you just want
to get it done.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, right, that happened to me. Ironically, that same thing
happened to me with Universes. I was playing out a
regional one time, and I was playing against an opponent
who's a streamer, so like people know him and then
he's super popular in the streaming community for Universes and
I beat him one game with a really under like

(21:41):
a really rogue character, and he got pissed. You can
tell that he started playing faster. He started misplaying and
stuff like that and he started doing things that he was.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Not allowed to do.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, and that was all on stream. And then he
didn't say goodbye when the event. When when the games ended,
he didn't say goodbye. He just left, just picked up
his stuff and left, no handshakes, no sportsmanship, because he
wants to keep that image of him, because what it
looks like to me is that his image got destroyed.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, it's it is tough. I will tell you, as
being someone who's been in the light, I guess of
you know, especially for key Forge, not so much altered,
but for key Forge, you want to put up a
good showing, right, especially in the early days, right as
when you're getting started, you want to you want to

(22:36):
keep that well, you know, I I am the end
all be all, but the in reality focuses number one.
We're all subject to the same mistakes, loss of focus,
you know. I mean, shoot, my last tournament I went
to I I I was, I got two bounced, right.

(23:00):
You get I think as you get more used to
just being in a light and realizing it's not the
end of the world, it's still just a game. And
the more you've been in the game, you realize, well,
this happens to everyone right, like literally, but you're playing
a card game, right, And I think the biggest thing

(23:22):
you have to kind of come to the realization of
is no matter what you do, you are still somewhat
at the mercy of RNG. No matter no matter what
it is, right, you can still get a bad draw.
Bad things can still happen to you, no matter how

(23:43):
much you've spent on a deck, no matter how many
times you've played a deck, No no matter what it is,
RANG sometimes just kicks you in the pants and and
you know, gets you down. Does suck people.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
A lot of people have some communication problems too that
if they see their opponents getting tilted, they try to
calm the situation that they use wrong words. It has
happened before when I'm judging and stuff like that. For
other events where you have a player get ready tilted
and they lost against the control deck, and the control

(24:24):
player says, that was a good game, but it was
insanely one sided. You on the side lines use you
can tell that the game was insanely one sided. You
can tell that they were not having fun. And the
controller set player says that was a good game. So
I don't know either you're insanely like Gullible or you're

(24:45):
doing this on purpose. So and at a high level
competitive event, that is a strategy to some people use.
I mean it removes some of the competition. So luckily,
from my experience, Altered does not like that so far,
at least not in the States. I can't say about
how it is in Europe, but it is something that

(25:07):
people need to learn how to cope.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Right, and it's not easy.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, there's there's a couple communities that seem to get
a little more heated in competition. Overall, Altered is is
pretty pretty nice and friendly. It was great at the

(25:32):
Dallas event to see everyone like at a World's qualifying
event for a trip to Paris, laughing and you know,
playing together and stuff.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
So what helps is the fact that the game does
not end the one turn. You cannot end the game
in a one turn, so your opponent will always have
a chance to backswing or have more multiple turns to
play things out. But if you play something like Magic,
or you play something like Pokemon or you gi oh,

(26:07):
the games can end in a turn, and that really
triggers people because they don't get a chance to respond
or actually play. The game so often has that going
for it that it does allow for more playing than
other games you can generally do.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
But a lot of mistakes and alterns still still even
right like, they have game lasting effects. I guess that's
the way I want to put it, because you, yes,
if you make a wrong turn, or if you make
a wrong decision on turn two or whatever, you know,

(26:45):
the case may be, it can't affect further down the line, right.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, If you lose one turn and you have nothing
to go in for you you're just lost the whole game.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Sometimes, right, so exactly.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Sometimes I mean it feels like it's the end of
the world, but right is read not until you make
it the end of the world, and that's.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Different, right, So typically on a lot of situations, How
do you guys, I mean, I guess, especially Felix Dexter,
how do you guys you've come to the realization I'm
tilted right, what are your next steps to going into
that to kind of get yourself out of that mindset?

(27:34):
I guess we'll go in round, right, because there's there's
stuff that I definitely do in round, and then there's
stuff I'll do out around because I mean, sometimes you
are so tilted in a game, right, and yep, I
made that mistake and that mistake did cost me the game, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
I mean, if the mistake is bad enough and I'm
in a mindset that's terrible, just forfeit at that point.
And I've done that once or twice where I just
made a really bad mistake and I didn't feel like
playing out the rest of the game, so I forfeited
that game.

Speaker 5 (28:09):
But most of the time, when I get tilted and.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Like the game is still recoverable, I'll just like make
a mental note, slow down, make sure you don't make
any more mistakes, and I like think, try to make
sure I think about my plays a lot more so
that I won't mess up again and get even more tilted.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
That's true. I'm so disappointed. Inn't you so so disappointed?

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (28:32):
I mean, I what did I stay wrong? I really
can't say I've ever conceded a game, right, Number one.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Never conceded If you're losing the game. What's the point
of continuing in.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
A tournament setting.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, there's a lot of prizing involved in rewards. Generally
you don't want to concede.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, what are those times that I conceded. We're in
a much smaller tournament where the prizes didn't really matter,
so I didn't really care at that point. In a
bigger tournament, I won't do.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Yeah, I can't say that in a tournament setting. I
have ever conceded if it's me and you and it's
like yep, that's the end of that. Yeah, I'll concede,
right if it's just for funzies. But we're talking more
tournament setting, because I'm not going to concede in a
tournament setting, right.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Is very different than one hundred person tournament, is what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
That's I think in the alternate wouldn't matter though, if
you're in the game and you can see it's still
just a loss. Are are you saying, don't concede because
you might have a chance to.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Win, I'm saying, don't concede, right, I mean a ten
person tournament. My assumption is, you know, if you've made
a mistake that badly, right, and you've realized that, I'm
assuming you're realizing on the spot, you're going to be
able to be like, hey, I made a mistake, and
we roll it back, and nine times out of ten

(29:55):
nobody's gonna say boo about it, right.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, unless you're depending at a local local Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
Right, at a local yeah, I guess. But you know,
we're talking a larger tournament setting than a ten person setting. Right,
I've done what it needs for me to get here, Right,
I'm not just gonna concede. I'm gonna play it out right,
because you number one, got to keep that mindset. You
never know what's going to happen. You don't. You can't

(30:30):
tell me, you know, Well, yeah, I screwed up. I
can see. That's the end of the game.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
I mean, well, if you're against your opponent and they
have like twenty amber and you have no amber control,
you're gonna lose the game. Is there really a point
in playing three more turns?

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Maybe until they win?

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Maybe? I mean, look, look, I've got a deck that's
just like that, but it can otk right, So I'm
gonna try. I'm gonna do my best, right, Number one,
You owe it to you. Don't ever play yourself down. Right,
You're you're here, you're having fun. Number one. You you
paid money to be here, more than likely, so you're

(31:10):
you're here to play the game. Get your money, My
biggest thing to get your money's worth. That's how I
view it, get your money's worth, because I mean, how
much did like the the Dallas Qualifier costs to be there?

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Entry was like thirty dollars or something?

Speaker 4 (31:33):
And then did you have to buy.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
A pack get to pay advias as well on top
of that?

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, so I don't know.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
I think the total was. I think the total for
everything was like forty five bucks or something like that.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
I mean, so you spent fifty dollars in this economy,
you spent your thirty.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
More for parking.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Oh geez, yeah, the parking.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
The parking was what was awful.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
We're getting crazy. So never give up on yourself. But
some of the things I will do. In round number one,
you recognize you're on tilt, slow down, right, yep, unless
you're under some major time crunch. You recognize you made them.

(32:18):
You made a mistake. It is maybe a game, maybe
a game altering mistake. Take a breath, slow down, review
your plays before you make them. I again, I will
never in a large tournament setting, I will never just concede.
That's just giving up and it's not something I in

(32:40):
my life believe in. I've been in a lot of
bad scenarios, but I've never given up.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
There's there's kind of two camps. There's people that would
if they see no way out of a game, they
would rather you know, concede and refresh and move on
to the next one.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
I know.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I think there are some TCGs where like technically, if
you do things a certain way, like your tournament points
will be different. The closest example I could think of
is like an intentional draw, which is actually not allowed

(33:22):
and altered. But there there are some other things. But
there are times in altered where you probably should concede.
But I yeah, yeah, the only way out of a
hostage setup is just to concede or you're just going

(33:44):
to be wasting your time and an hour, yeah, the
opponent's time.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
But yeah, I remember they chose to play that.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, but you have no you can't what I was
gonna talk about, You can't, You literally can't do anything.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well but I but Dexter's like, well, you're wasting The
only person's time you're wasting is yours. At that point, Yeah,
saying like wasting your opponent time is kind of a weird,
weird setup because it's like, well, they chose to play this,
so they they knew what they were getting into.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah, yeah, I would just rather not play a painful
losing game if I can concede and go play a
different game, or just like spend my time doing something
else that's more fun instead of just painfully losing a match.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
But but all that, you don't consider any of this
like some sort of lose it or like learning experience.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Lookie, if I got wristring gun tis locked out, do
I want to just sit there for thirty minutes and
watching my own in solo play.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
I guess that's on you. But for me, yeah, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna. I am going to make you play it.
I'm not just gonna give it to you. I just
don't believe even giving people the win.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Ever, it does happen that you think they your opponent
has the win and they misplay.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
It can happen.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, that is possible.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
It did happen to me. Well, I'm just saying like, oh,
I got this and I played a card to the
wrong order and boo, that was it.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
I lost the game and the completely Maybe again this
is just me, right, but even on you know, yes
it can happen, they misplay and you win, right, Does
it happen a ton? Probably not? But you know, maybe
there's an old life lesson in here that my old
man taught me, and that's nothing in life is free, right,

(35:41):
So you're going to earn your win against me, not
just going to give it to you. You and I
have both learned nothing from this experience if I just
give you the win. I don't know. Maybe this is
old man barking at clouds at this point, and we're
getting a little bit away from from tilt and coping mechanics,
but I just for for me. Yes, I'm tilted, I'm angry,

(36:04):
I'm gonna take a breath. I'm going to reset kind
of myself mentally. You'll probably see me sit back in
my chair, maybe take a sip of my noss because
that's definitely there. And uh, I'm I'm going to do
my best to recover what I can. Right. If that

(36:26):
results in a loss, it results in a loss, and
that's that's on me. Take take my little mental note
right that, like, hey, don't do that again, and move
forward and move to your next next thing. And alters
a little different than than key Forge because KeyForge is
a little more strict on how many losses you're allowed

(36:48):
to have because once you have once you have two
losses in key Forge, you're done for the day. Like
there's no like, well, at least I got like four
more rounds to just kind of have fun. Like you're done.
It's over for you, like you're not playing anymore. Key
Forge you can go into some side events, but your
your day is done. So it's a little more rough

(37:09):
than most card games where you just go to the
bottom bracket. All right, game is done, Well, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I was gonna say as well that on knowing that
tilt is a thing people have to understand as well
the type of event that they're playing in, and that
the higher the more competitive an event is going to be,
the higher is a chance that you're going to get tilted.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
So for like.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Altered World, that is going to happen. So it's a
matter of knowing how to cope and knowing how to
manage it to.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
So I think the biggest thing for me and this
is what I do, And you can tell me whether
you guys like it or not. I do. I do
take that that moment of I guess self reflection is
the best way I can I can say it. Take
that moment. Breathe, right, don't forget to breathe. It's essential
to everything you do. Realize yep, and admit it to yourself.

(38:11):
You made the mistake. It happened, right, there's no going
back now, and kind of do your best to move
forward and play at a reasonable pace, but maybe take
your time a little bit more right, pay attention, focus,
run it through your head. And then because you know

(38:35):
that you have the tendency that if you are tilted,
you are going to play faster, you're going to play looser,
and you're going to play dumber, and try not to
you can at least salvage that out of everything, I
think you did well. And then after games typically what
for me you can I'll tell me how you guys

(38:56):
deal with it. I normally take my well for me,
I take my little smoke break right, I run outside
and I have my little smoke and maybe uh maybe
some more drink and kind of reflect and realize what
I did wrong, maybe beat myself up a little bit,
maybe not, and uh, you know, just again, breathe. Remember

(39:22):
you're here to have fun. Remember you're here and this
is a top level of competition, and everybody is going
to make mistakes under pressure and use it as a
learning experience for a next round. That's what I do.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
About rewind, rewind to the very start. What do you
what do you do to prepare yourself for entering the
no tilt zone before an event?

Speaker 4 (39:52):
So I've I don't know about you, Felix. Do you
have a ritual before you go into large tournaments?

Speaker 2 (39:59):
I talked to my opponent and I just chat. I
just chit chat, Just talk about the day, talk about
how they've been, where are they from. Like, if you
can start a good relationship based conversation with your opponent,
the game is going to be fun. If you just
go in playing the tournament, you just sit down and
start playing, you're gonna you're going to tilt. So for me,

(40:24):
it always happens. If I don't talk to my opponent,
I don't know them. I get the feeling that they're
super competitive, that they're playing to pretty much destroy me.
That's different is if I were to talk to somebody
and then we're like, yeah, we're here, we're having fun
while you guys are up to what are you guys
are gonna do you. I guess I'm gonta pay any

(40:44):
side events. Opening that type of conversation, it just creates
a more positive atmosphere. So to me, that's what I
always start doing. I always talk to my opponent and
just chit chat.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Do you have do you have like a pre tournament ritual?
I guess that's where I was more going.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
With it for a pre tournament before I even start. Yeah,
I gotta use the restroom.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
I'm going to.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Go use the restroom. Make sure to drink a good
amounts of water because you will dehydrate, because nothing you
will get dehydrated at big events.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
Nothing is worse than having to pay mid round. Yeah,
you're on a tia, you gotta hold.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
It just gets the people too, So you're gonna get gassie,
you're gonna wanting to You're gonna have that poop feeling.
It's like, no, use the restroom like, that's something you
definitely need to do, and the audit like just pretty
much put the ot in on. You don't want to
be smelling bad. It's just gonna make things worse.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Well not Yeah, we're getting in a little bit of
tournament prep here, right, So before you even start your day.
For the love of Jesus of everything good in the world.
You're at your hotel, you're at your house, wherever you are,
please take a shower and put the order in on.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
It does a difference, huh.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
It probably makes it a lot easier for you to
focus too.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
I guess, Yeah, I guess I'm.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
Going to have a harder time to focus.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm a big guy, right, I'm
I'm already super focused on not smelling bad to begin with. Right,
So I mean I I my morning ritual. I'm starting
with the best shower of my life. Right. Not only
that you're in a hotel, use their hot water. It's

(42:44):
free there. Just saying if you're if you're a home
if you're a homeowner, you understand this. So I'm taking
a good, nice, long, hot shower, and then I'm off
to breakfast. Make sure you do eat something before you start,
because you are going to get hungry. And not only
on top of that, make sure you have I guess

(43:08):
fuel of some sort. Right. I typically will carry like
I guess, power bars, like normally like granola bars or
protein bars, something in my backpack that you know, you
get a little peckish. And this was my mistake at

(43:29):
gen Con. I got a little peckish and I didn't
have jack And that was the worst, right, because you're
that's gonna yeah, you're still compact.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Even if you know you're gonna have a lunch. Being
hungry will make you angry. Yep, it will definitely distract you.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
So make sure in your in your pack you got
like you know, I mean, you can get you can
even on a budget, you can get you know, some
granola bars from Walmart on the super cheep hop Tarts
granola bars. You know, something prepackaged that you can kind
of just take along with you, right, Aget a baget? Yeah,

(44:14):
that'll if that fits in your backpack.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Absolutely be eating so many bagets a week from now,
you don't even know.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
I mean. And for me too, especially, I not only
that I carry extra deodorant on me. It is it
is in my backpack at all times during a large
event because it is going to be hot no matter
where it is, no matter what the ac is set to.
There are hundreds of people here and you are all
crammed into a tiny area. It's gonna get hot. So

(44:46):
I carry deodorant and I typically carry either. I used
to carry cologne on me until it broke, and then
my whole backpack just reeked of cologne, which wasn't the
worst thing in the world, but it also wasn't the
best thing. But I now carry like an axe spray

(45:07):
or something, you know, axe or I'm an old spice
fan because I'm an old man, right, so I use
I have a lot of old spice, usually swagger if
you need to know my preferences, but just something you know,
and if you're feeling a little underfresh, you can always
go to the bathroom splash a little water on your face.

(45:28):
This also helps with tilt and kind of again refocus yourself,
freshen up a little bit. I do like to also
carry I don't know if I don't, I don't really
know what to call them. Those toothbrush things, right, they're
like the toothbrush all in one. They're little, they're tiny
little guys, and they got like the toothpaste in the bristles.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
I just don't know the name.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
I don't know what they're called either, but I like
to have those on me, along with some and some gum. Again,
just something to keep yourself in mind. Busy out of
not what you know anything about what you're doing. You know,
in case you get a little over over stimulated at
any point, you can have some gum or some mints

(46:17):
to kind of focus yourself, help yourself out. These are
all my tips and tricks. You what are your, guys?
I mean my because that's this is my ritual right now.
Because I'm gonna go get a breakfast. I'm gonna pack
my bag right. Typically breakfast is in the hotel, but
get a breakfast, pack my bag off off to the show, right,

(46:38):
and then before I start, I typically I'm I'm gonna
have a playlist. I usually have a playlist with me
for every event I'm going to, right, and I might
be in different moods at different times, but I'm gonna
pop my my AirPods in and I might I might
jam out for five to fifteen minutes before before where

(47:00):
the event starts, and just kind of get myself in
the right mindset to make some good decisions and uh,
hopefully everything goes well.

Speaker 5 (47:10):
I do actually have like a whole ritual, absolutely, I
do you do? I just wing it.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
I mean I'll normally come in with like some snacks
and prepare a little bit, but most of it I
don't do that much. I just hope everything goes well.

Speaker 4 (47:27):
Yeah, I half percent have a ritual. I mean you gotta.
I'm old man too write when you're young like Dexter.
How old are you, Dexter nineteen? Yeah, I mean you
you can wing it, but like I need some sort
of ritual. I need some sort of structure, right, especially
I It's like, I'm if I want to do well

(47:48):
or if I look at look at the worst outing
I've had this far in a tournament setting. I didn't
follow any of my ritual or any of my structure, right,
and I had a bad showing. And you want to
know what I was cool with that? I scrubbed out.
It happens. It happens to everybody. It's going to happen
to you. The faster you come to the realization it's

(48:08):
going to happen to you one day and guess what
tomorrow is going to come and nothing really too big
is going to come of it, the better off you are.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yep, you don't want to You want to know something
very very sad but probably important. Most of us here,
besides Dexter, are in our thirties plus, right, yep.

Speaker 6 (48:35):
Yeah, I need to start stretching every day, especially leading absolutely.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Like an event or a lot of travel or anything,
because my body now likes to just get stiff and
sore just from sleeping. It's wonderful.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
So yep, ye, welcome to your thirties where shit starts
to break down and you go to the doctor and
they go, yeah, this is just kind of how it
is now. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
I'm not there yet, but I do.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
A lot.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
I was gonna say, Felix is very active already.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
I'm doing backflots and stuff like that, so yeah, pretty active.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
I am a tall person, right, which is actually kind
of a curse that I don't wait on anyone.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Being much taller than six foot is not very good
for your health.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Yeah, so I have. I actually have stretch marks on
my knees, and it's not because my knees are fat.
It's because it's because I grew too tall too fast.
Fun fact, when that happens, you wake up as a
kid screaming in pain because of growing pains. So that

(50:03):
was also fun. I promise looking up stretches and doing
very specific stretches goes a long way, because like my
left knee gets really bad sometimes and if I just
do those, like actual targeted stretches for my knee, it

(50:24):
feels a lot better.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Well, I guess I kind of did leave out a
portion there. Typically, I typically, if the hotel I am
at has a gym of some sort, I will go
do a few free weights. Yep, I will. I'll go
hit up. I'll go hit up the free weights, and
I'll go hit up the treadmill. Nothing too crazy. I'm

(50:48):
not running a mile. I know some people do. I
know my my doctor sheep like runs a mile and
I'm like, that's too much for me, It's all. But
you know, I'll go I'll go on the treadmill and
do a little walk, do a little free weight, you know,
kind of get the get the blood flowing right. Stretching
is definitely important, though, you know that the best stretches

(51:11):
are those stupid stretches that they make you do in
in uh, you know, like your team safety meeting. You know, yeah,
those are the weird story. Those are the best ones
to do.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Yeah, what's a team safety meeting.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
Yeah. Once you go into the workforce, dexter, you'll learn
time from marning stretches and like when your younger years
you're like, oh my god, I gotta do you Now
you're like, man, these are great. Yeah, one day you'll
learn dexter.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
It's okay.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
We're kind of repeating partially an episode we did a
while ago, so people we we did the tournament prep
or convince Chin prep or something before. One of the
things that we didn't really touch on that is very

(52:10):
specific to the event we're referencing is how you prepare
for different ormats of events. So in the show notes,
I do have the link to the World Championship information.

(52:32):
And what is really interesting about gorgeous? Oh my gosh, yeah,
people are people are.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
Are absolutely gorgeous. Is this the participation Matt? The second one?
Because you've got three gold matts. I'm assuming these are
for because I see world I don't know. They don't
have anything on them other than World Championship. There's an
eventa one that I might spend money on. If anybody
gets that one, just maybe shoot me a DM. Yes.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
So for participation you get the Chibi Uh World playmat, which.

Speaker 4 (53:11):
Is all Ofkemon.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Yeah, so it's all of the Leviathans, but in like
Chibi form uh.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
The are adorable. If you haven't checked it out on
the website, well look at adorable.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
The hero ones will be able to be purchased from
the Pluck Prize wall, and then the winners. I believe
I can win versions of the playmat and like specific cards,
but the stamp will be different. It'll say, you know,
like top eight or whatever. I'm not sure if they

(53:51):
have images of those anywhere. But the the trophy is
also super awesome, and then.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
They just know what it looks like because you're Cole Robbie.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
No, it's down, it's down below the format.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
But oh I generated.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
So the first day will be the last chance qualifiers,
which will just be normal you know, best of three,
single elimination constructed event, but the World Championship event is
actually a best of three conquest tournament.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
So each person has to bring three different decks, and
I believe each deck has to be a different faction,
so you can't have like Siggy Zen and Goring because
those are all ortists. Yeah. And then from what I understand,

(55:00):
and each time you are matched against an opponent, they
can ban one of your decks and then you have
to win two matches with the other two, and then
they have a bunch of you know, more information down
here about what changes when it goes from top thirty

(55:20):
two to top sixteen. But if you're going into a
conquest format, what considerations would you guys have or are
you just freaking out that you have to make three
different decks.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
I'm panicking that I have to make three different decks.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
You have to invest more for sure?

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Yeah? Yeah, okay, so Lyra Yizmir, Now what.

Speaker 5 (55:52):
You got to pick another faction? No, I don't want
to place and Muna.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Yeah. I talked about the I think an episode or
two ago when I was talking about how people were
kind of upset about this format. But me coming from
a more esports background, you know, like League of Legends
or Rainbow six Siege I played for a bit, bands

(56:19):
are are like very very normal in that kind of setup.
And it's not always that you're banning, you know, your
opponent's best you know, hero or deck. Sometimes it is,
but sometimes you know, like, hey, my strongest deck is

(56:41):
actually a counter to their strongest deck, So I'm going
to ban the one that is, you know, my weakest matchup.
Like I've been playing, Yeah, I've been playing a lot
of Moyo. If I am sitting down at the table
and I am matched up against someone and they present
a Singasmar deck, I'm banning Sigasmar because that's by far

(57:04):
the absolute worst matchup for Moyo, even if the person's
not a good Sigasmar player. So I think really preparing
for conquest outside of actually building the decks and getting
all the cards, and you know, people are worried about
what is it's nine different uniques. Yeah, you could do

(57:27):
some you know research, whether it be playing games with
all your decks, seeing what your worst matchups are, looking
into you know the players in the tournament, and thirty
nine Cards has basically tournament results for probably ninety nine

(57:49):
percent of the people that are going to be at
this event, so you can kind of see what they've played.
If you don't track your games already and like how
they are into certain matchups, you can definitely start. And
we actually do have a free template on our Patreon
for anyone. I realized the other day that I need

(58:13):
to update it to include the new heroes.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
So when I do that, versions stuff going to be
at World. I'm sorry, I'm just checking this out. Yeah, ship, Yeah,
I think giving me the fomo. It really really really
is like number one. I see this sealed three v
three sealed team events are always fun no matter what

(58:41):
game you're in. I don't know exactly how Altered does it,
but like they're always fun to do. Two v two
not so not as much fun as a three v three.
There's nothing, buddy, There's nothing better than sitting down with
two of your friends to just other people you know,

(59:02):
and and if you're being able to ask for help
and well, how would you play this? How would you
play that? Key for used to do team events and
always always a great time, uh to kind of poke around.
I'm looking at I don't know are these stickers. I
don't know what these are if they're stickers or pins,
but they're kind of cool. The pins very very cool.

(59:24):
Sleep they are pushing these sleeves. I think the sleeves
are probably like the weakest thing I've seen on here.
I mean cool, look at sleeves, but like out of
the week like them. The mats are all awesome.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
People people go crazy for those ORBS sleeves though, to
be honest, yeah, I think it's because every set has them,
so people are like different too. I want the ORB sleeve.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Yeah, yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
They're slightly different too, they Yeah, yeah, every set has
a different ORB back. Yeah, so I think honestly as well,
this set of ORB sleeves will be even.

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
More three boosters. Yeah, I hope, I hope. I hope
they're sliding of you. Those are pretty dope. I don't know,
I don't ask me why. I'm all about the chib Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Those are just the ope boosters that you can get
from playing anywhere with OP.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
So oh there in cheap.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Yep yep.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
So every yeah, every set they do a different theme
for the OP boosters. Last set was everyone at an
alternate convention, so you had like pascife selling minotar flushes, which,
if you don't know, Pascifey is the mother of the minotaur.

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So it's pretty cool. Yeah, this set is Chibi Leviathan's.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
But yeah, very very cool stuff they've They've done very
well with prizing. There will be artists there, there will
be lower events. There's also events for younger kids, which
is super cool.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Yeah. I saw that there is a dojo, what do
they call it, Kodama's.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Dojo, Podama Academy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
Yeah, Kodama Academy. Yeah, that's that's cool getting having that tier.
I've always thought that more more games should have that
kind of that bracketed tier. Pokemon does it. They do
a good job of it, where like there's like each
age group has like kind of their own events. I
don't know if Altered could pull that off. Just I

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don't know if there's a big enough player base to
do that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Not quite yet. Yeah, there's no. It was actually kind
of interesting. Someone came into the discord and they were like, Hey,
is it okay if my daughter plays in the LCQ
she's ten? And they were like, yeah, there's no like
age restrictions or anything, you know, just make sure she's

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prepared and whatnot. But yeah, his daughter does not want
to play in the Kodama Academy. She wants to play
in the big leagues.

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
I was like, hell yeah. And I responded and I
was like, honestly, like I usually have more problems with
the adults than the kids, Like sometimes kids can get
you know, a little tilted. The theme of this episode.
But there was a kid at the Dallas PQ for

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Star Wars that was just bad mouthing everyone, but nine
out of ten people thought it was hilarious, and I
tried to tell him. I was like, look, this kid
is your friend, he knows who you are. You can
say whatever you want to him. You got to realize
not everyone here is your friend. You can't just be
bad mouthing everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
That's bad mouth everyone. As long as you say as
long as you say I'm kidding at the end, it
doesn't count. Yeah, none of that.

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
To say it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Yeah, some grown ass man complained about him, of course,
so but yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
The the other events, though, which you three should be
good at saying how you go into it, is uh
like draft or sealed. I I don't prepare like for
that at all. I know that there are all right,
so Felix is out too. Do you guys prepare for

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draft us at all? Is there anything you do ahead
of those?

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
I well, I mean not, yes and no. It's no
different from my normal like kind of routine, but just
kind of I guess more along that line. You gotta
prepare for the worst, especially in because I guess that's
more of a sealed format than anything. Huh yeah, because

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like it's such a format of you know, I guess
the best way is to put, it is sometimes a
good sometimes a shit right, Like it's.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Just yes, sometimes you might just good, right, and you
have to prepare for that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
Sometimes it's great sometimes you know, like it just it
is what it is, man, And you just kind of
got to realize that going into those formats where there
is a little bit of luck involved, it just is
what it is. Like you gotta roll with the punches there,

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and the better you can roll with them again, the
best or off you'll be. You know, I I do
practice like our sealed format, and really, honestly, like practice
really just involves of playing a lot of the sealed format, right,

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so you kind of know you know what you're looking for.
Like when I crack open what I'm looking at, I
kind of already have an idea of what I'm looking for, right,
so I can use that as a base and kind
of run from there. Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
The best way to practice for limited is just to
play a bunch of Limited beforehand so you know how
it goes and the good combos and what to look
out for.

Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
You don't do anything specifically before each game or before
the tournament and specific but just getting lots of reps
in with those formats is great, definitely gives you an
upper hand over people that don't have that same experience.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
You can also if you wanted to review, you know,
cards and come up yeah, yeah, for sure strategies ahead
of time and in altered I would say one of
the best ways to do that would be to like
go to a guy trying, you know, reveal spreadsheet or

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something like that, and just you know, read through every card.
I cannot tell you how often, going into a new set,
I undervalued a card until I was more actively looking
at it or.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Yeah, yeah, when.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
You get destroyed by it, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
And I'm like, oh damn, that's what that card means.
Like a very good example for the new Skybound Odyssey
set is I'm pretty sure none of us put Counting
Sheep on our list, or at least we didn't, you know,
focus on it that much.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
I looked at it and I don't remember if it
put it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Yeah, I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
If okay, this is this is a perfect example. You
look at the card and you're like, okay, you know whatever.
You can create po wooly backs and then you put
things to sleep. The thing is, if you look at
that card longer. It puts every sea card, no matter

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what expedition it is to sleep that costs one or less.
You know what, also costs less than one to all tokens.
It is a very strong card.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
It's one that I would consider running as a one
of when I looked at it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Yeah, I played no Characters tournament today and yeah the
field had counting sheep and bait and it was insane.

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
That's so good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Yeah, it was ridiculous. So reading the cards, really ingesting them,
thinking through them, I would say it's very a very
good way to prepare for sealed and draft events.

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
You alrighty, well, is there anything else we want to
go over? Let me check our little note skis here. Yeah,
if you want to read ape not we'll Recapella another time. Mark,
make sure you go over to the Patreon where I

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might read you a Capello one day. Who knows, maybe
we'll maybe we'll do that as a fun thing over there.
Make sure you do uh, make sure you sign up
for the Paige san you do get the shows a
little bit. Early events are as kind of normal, I guess,
except you're going to have worlds. Uh. Actually, if you're

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hearing this, you're you might be there. Nobody really knows.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
And as we said already, probably no episode next week
because I will be in Paris and Felix will be
doing Felix things.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
No, I'll be in Saint Louis. I'll be at a
Pokemon conference.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
Pokemon conference. Pokemon has conferences.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
We're going to be at the American Library Association and
we're going to talk with teachers and librarians about bringing
Pokemon to libraries.

Speaker 4 (01:09:41):
Oh, it's an.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Official program that they're pushing that got postponed due to
COVID and they're trying to bring it back.

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
Get those kids off the streets, get them plans Pokemon.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
I mean the library league that I run has like
forty kids.

Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
Okay, I mean that for a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
And there children, so they're like age seven to thirteen,
got it. So that's that's a demographic that you're pushing for.
So that's what we're going to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Make sure you go over to w dot GG, use
code draw better, get yourself a tub of energy. Maybe
they can get it to you before you go to
power and compete over there. Make sure that you have
all your hydrated and you're strong and you're heavily caffeinated
because that's what I need. And I like coffee, big

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fan of coffee. I don't know how y'all feel about it,
but I like coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Yeah, yeah, I drink And.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
Would that be good luck to everybody competing in Worlds
as you are competing right now, safe travels to mister
Cole Robbie on his way to and from Paris, or
I should just say, France? Is it in Paris proper?

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
It's in Peris proper, though I think that I am.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
Not because you know, like a lot of us say,
like it's close to Chicago, so it's just in Chicago,
but really, isn't like Schomberg, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, it's in technically uh nui morn France.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
Yes, I will.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
I will be in Paris at some point, so.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
You would almost have to. It's like a once in
a lifetime maybe once in a lifetime experience, right yep,
at least for me. But but we want to thank
everyone for listening, and hey, we got a shout out
to send. Mister West will shout out to you. And

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with that being said, we will see you all Afterworlds later, you.

Speaker 7 (01:12:10):
Do a greci, sohy aren't you you feel like a
same time in somebody on a sidney. You're like a creature.

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Penny of me till the soil. You'll live to say,
since you're like a creature.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
And you tell the